Trevor Nunn Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Trevor Nunn quotes and sayings page 2 (84 year old director). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 26 we have for him.
“Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.”
“I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.”
“One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.”
“The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.”
“A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.”
“In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.”
“I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.”
“If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.”
“In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.”
“In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.”
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